All through the generous, smart, funny show, carefully crafted yet emotionally authentic, with Marshall sang songs by Jacques Brel and made famous by Edith Piaf, living the songs, and letting us live them – and live her love affair with Paris – too.

'We have a story for the first part because we want to show Montmartre in Paris. We want to show the jazz clubs like we find today in New York. In France in the 1950s there were jazz clubs in Paris. It’s not the same now.'